change in HOME handling hurts pbuilder, add a news item about it

[debian/sudo] / debian / NEWS

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+sudo (1.7.4p4-2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  The HOME and MAIL environment variables are now reset based on the
+  target user's password database entry when the env_reset sudoers option
+  is enabled (which is the case in the default configuration).  Users
+  wishing to preserve the original values should use a sudoers entry like:
+     Defaults env_keep += HOME
+  to preserve the old value of HOME and
+     Defaults env_keep += MAIL
+  to preserve the old value of MAIL.
+
+  The change in handling of HOME is known to affect programs like pbuilder.
+
+ -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>  Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:29:16 -0600
+
 sudo (1.6.8p12-5) unstable; urgency=low
 
   The sudo package is no longer configured --with-exempt=sudo.  If you